The Atlantic
Patti Smith's Lifetime of Reinvention
Nearing 80, the punk poet reflects on the twists in her story that have surprised even her.
10+ min |
December 2025
Stereophile
Audio Research Reference 330M
MONOBLOCK POWER AMPLIFIER
10+ min |
December 2025
Stereophile
MANUFACTURERS' COMMENTS
MoFi Distribution would like to thank both Ken Micallef and John Atkinson for their time and effort reviewing the HiFi Rose RA280 integrated amplifier (November 2025, p.93).
2 min |
December 2025
Stereophile
DeVore Gibbon Super Nine
LOUDSPEAKER
10+ min |
December 2025
Stereophile
Arendal Sound 1528 Tower 8
LOUDSPEAKER
10+ min |
December 2025
Stereophile
Some marketing claims are true
None of the amps I build are better than the others,” Justin Weber of Ampsandsound told me not long after we met. “They are just different.” I may have smirked inwardly. According to his company’s website, Weber makes no fewer than 23 amplifier models, many capable of driving both headphones and speakers, ranging from the $2700 Kenzie OG to the $38,000 Arch Monos. Are they really all equally good?, I wondered. Surely this was just a clever Buddhist ploy to distract us from some of his amps’ high prices. Doesn't the extra $35k spent on the Arch Monos buy you something more desirable than the performance offered by the little Kenzie? Writing for an audio magazine means I hear a lot of marketing claims, some more risible than others, and I have learned to take them with an entire seabed worth of salt.
10+ min |
December 2025
Stereophile
Midpriced phonography
My mother Lily Mae was a Lutheran from Norway. She sent me to Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran School so that I'd become a well-mannered, tea-with-her-friends choirboy, with starched white shirts and a secret penchant for wildness that was nurtured by those freethinking Catholic girls at the elementary school next to ours.
10+ min |
December 2025
Stereophile
Musical Fidelity Nu-Vista 600.2
INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER
10+ min |
December 2025
Stereophile
Baby you can drive my car(tridge)
While I was coming to grips with this month's review subject, the idler drive Garrard 301 Advanced, I began to think about the various methods that have been used to spin turntable platters over the years. Since the transition a century ago from windup clockwork to electric motors, there have basically been three ways to spin a turntable platter: idler drive, belt drive, and direct drive. True, there have also been a few designs that go their own unique ways, such as the rare, water-driven Oasis made by David Gillespie of Saturn Audio in the late 1970s and the gear-driven H.H. Scott 710 I once owned and foolishly sold. But almost everything made since the 1950s uses one of the three main drive systems. Even the Omega Drive system, which was used by Wilson Benesch on their extraordinary GMT One turntable, is at its core a direct drive design.
10 min |
December 2025
Stereophile
Life in the emerald beyond
If you find yourself in Monaco on a Sunday night, make your way to La Note Bleue, a cozy restaurant and music bar on the beach by the Avenue Princesse Grace. There, you're likely to find a legendary world/fusion guitarist sitting in with a group of young jazz musicians eager to cut heads with the acknowledged maestro of inner awareness and otherworldly spirits. Forever known to some as “Mahavishnu,” you can call him by his birth name, John McLaughlin.
3 min |
December 2025
Stereophile
Lotti Golden
Her life became a whirlwind. Taking the train in from Brooklyn to Manhattan to pitch songs and experience the East Village scene, she landed a song-publishing deal at age 14. In 1968, at 18, after a chance meeting in an elevator, a legendary songwriter/record producer was interested in assisting her in making her debut album. Released on Atlantic Records in 1969, Lotti Golden's Motor-Cycle was wildly experimental and ahead of its time. Seemingly poised for success, the album and her career suddenly vanished.
4 min |
December 2025
Stereophile
Excel Sound/LP Gear The Vessel
MOVING MAGNET CARTRIDGE SYSTEM
10+ min |
December 2025
Stereophile
36 sides of late Bowie
I Can't Give Everything Away is the sixth and last of the Bowie box sets that survey specific periods in the artist's career. The first was Five Years 1969–1973, released in September 2015. That was followed by Who Can I Be Now? (1974–1976), A New Career in a New Town (1977–1982), Loving the Alien (1983–1988), Brilliant Adventure (1992–2001), and finally the new set. Together, the six sets are an impressive testament to a musical giant—a heavyweight tribute figuratively and literally. You could use this last installment to pump up your biceps.
3 min |
December 2025
Stereophile
Full circle in Colorado
A hi-fi dealer's son, Matt Alterman has been in or near the business almost all his life. His dealership, Crescendo Audio, is coming full circle as he opens a new location in Boulder, Colorado, the town where he launched his first store 13 years ago.
3 min |
December 2025
The Atlantic
Why I Run
Ten years ago, when I turned 40, my father posted a birthday message on my Facebook page that was visible to all of my friends and followers.
10+ min |
December 2025
The Atlantic
The Dead Zones
By mid-century, many places in the United States may be uninhabitable.
10+ min |
December 2025
The Atlantic
The One and Only Sammy
The astonishing, confounding career of Sammy Davis Jr.
7 min |
December 2025
The Atlantic
The Last of the Literary Outdoorsmen
Thomas McGuane—fisherman, hunter, rancher, writer—says “good riddance” to his kind.
10+ min |
December 2025
The Atlantic
The Realist Magic of Philip Pullman
The Golden Compass author tells us how to love this world. It's not easy.
9 min |
December 2025
The Atlantic
We Are Not One
When it came into view, Doctor Rustin was struck by its size.
10+ min |
December 2025
Writer’s Digest
What Is Your Story Question?
When a story isn't working—when you know it's not quite coming together, when beta readers and critique partners confirm your fears but can't put a finger on why, or you're not getting offers from agents or publishers—savvy authors start trying to diagnose the issue by examining its component parts, like characterization, plot, and stakes.
6 min |
Yearbook 2026
Writer’s Digest
Write It Out
Writing prompts to boost your creativity.
1 min |
Yearbook 2026
Old House Journal
Classic Transformation
As a team, an architect and an interior designer take a blank canvas and create an elegant, traditional living space.
3 min |
Winter 2026
Old House Journal
view finder
Turning a dated Cape Cod Home into the ultimate summer getaway-complete with a classic kitchen.
2 min |
Winter 2026
Old House Journal
TO THE HAMPTONS, with love
THIS SHINGLE STYLE BEAUTY CELEBRATES THE ART OF SUMMERING IN SOUTHAMPTON.
3 min |
Winter 2026
Old House Journal
REVOLUTIONARY LANDSCAPE
Dan Gordon Landscape Architects creates historical gardens in Concord, Massachusetts.
3 min |
Winter 2026
The Wall Street Journal
Tyson Foods Squeezed by Surging Beef Costs
Tyson Foods expects high beef prices to persist into next year as the nation’s cattle shortage continues to squeeze the meatpacking industry’s profits.
2 min |
November 11, 2025
The Wall Street Journal
Finding a Higher Gear in Retirement
One important lesson from a 4,800-mile cross-country bike trip: Keep pressing your limits until you reach your limits
5 min |
November 11, 2025
Kiplinger's Personal Finance
A GUIDE TO LAUNCHING A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS AFTER 50
Age can be an advantage for older entrepreneurs looking to extend their careers or supplement income in retirement.
10+ min |
December 2025
Kiplinger's Personal Finance
21 SMART MOVES TO MAKE BEFORE YEAR-END
These steps can help trim your tax bill, boost your savings, lower your health care costs and set you up for financial success in 2026.
10+ min |